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Erik Forsell

@erikforsell.bsky.social

Psychologist and phd at Karolinska Institutet & head of R&D at the Internet Psychiatry Clinic, Sweden. Currently on the board of directors of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) and editor for Internet Interventions.

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Since we don't know a lot here, it seems important to report the context in which measurements happen carefully. Also, have a separate "pre" measure - never use a measure that determines inclusion/eligibility as your "pre" measure. //

05.03.2026 09:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Lotr Theoden GIF Alt: Lotr Theoden GIF saying "less than half of what I'd hoped for"

Too few

05.03.2026 09:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

-Did you assess the patients' symptoms at the very start of the treatment?
-No, but we got the assessment from the intake procedure, and that's like super close to the start of treatment, so no biggie
-Wrong! Yes, biggie!

#academicsky #science #internetinterventions
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05.03.2026 09:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Det här fusket jagar ingen?

De får chans efter chans. Eleverna däremot… får aldrig tillbaka förlorad utbildning.

04.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 32    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Baker Street?

04.03.2026 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie

04.03.2026 11:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Crucially, this matters if you want to make claims about what changes occurred during the treatment itself, and not mix that up with things that happened before the patient even got the treatment.

04.03.2026 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It really matters if you take a patient's symptom ratings from screening/assessment or at the very start of treatment as their "pre-treatment symptom level", AND that has little do do with how fast all those things happen.

04.03.2026 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@vilgothuhn.bsky.social @viktorkaldo.bsky.social @isrii.bsky.social

04.03.2026 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Not just spontaneous remission: Time-dependent and independent effects in pre-intervention symptom reduction Psychological symptoms tend to change over time, even in the absence of clinical intervention. For example, self-ratings are often higher at screening…

New article!

It really matters if you take a patient's symptom ratings from screening/assessment or at the very start of treatment as their "pre-treatment symptom level", AND that has little do do with how fast all those things happen.

#academicsky #science 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

04.03.2026 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump called it.

In 2019 😜

02.03.2026 08:34 — 👍 1145    🔁 431    💬 63    📌 31
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If you do enough TRT, buy my supplements and do daily ice baths, then you, to, can get one of Avril Lavigne's old blazers.

02.03.2026 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, this truly is the darkest timeline...

01.03.2026 16:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How long 'til they start watering their crops with gatorade, you think?

28.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 8160    🔁 3446    💬 159    📌 221
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Ny granskning: 99 procent av nätläkarbolagets fakturor saknade grund Region Sörmland fortsätter sina granskningar av fakturor för digital vård. I en färsk rapport bedöms endast en procent av vårdbesöken till nätläkarbolaget Blodtrycksdoktorn vara ersättningsbara. – Det...

Blodtrycksdoktorn tycks alltså av allt att döma, enligt en färsk oberoende granskning, systematiskt ha agerat oetiskt och allvarligt bedrägligt genom att
- dela upp patientkontakter på omotiverat många tillfällen för att maximera sin ersättning
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www.dagensmedicin.se/vardens-styr...

26.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 39    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 0

Jösses, den där handleden ser inte helt frisk ut, hann jag tänka...

26.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ibland klagar vi forskare för mycket över att vi behöver lägga så mycket tid på att ansöka om pengar; det är inte fel att vi behöver övertyga andra om att det vi vill göra är en bra idé.

...men att sitta och manuellt mata in sina publikationer en och en i femton separata fält i Prisma år 2026.

26.02.2026 09:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#academicsky
#clinicalpsychology
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26.02.2026 09:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Missa för guds skull inte #mellobohlin
Bluesky när det är som bäst ❤️

24.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

#academicsky help us make the ISRII conference 2026 the best one yet! Call for volunteers. 🧪

24.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Place The GIF Alt: Eleanor Shellstrop saying "fork yeah!"

It finally happened! I am now enjoying watching The Good Place with my eldest (12yo), and she's totally into it. She refuses to go to bed because it's such a nail biter, and she even gets most of the humor.

23.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funny how the thing that people say that they're missing about ye olde days are small businesses, and somehow that is the fault of immigration and not Amazon and Walmart etc...

21.02.2026 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Both automatic. The useful one is old and the worthless one that can't do anything other than reiterate my question back to me is the new AI.

21.02.2026 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chatted with an AI chat for an online shop and it told me to ask the chat under Help instead of itself, because it turns out that the "chat" under "help" can actually search through the FAQ and terms for the store and find the answer instead of just talking with me about it.

21.02.2026 09:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love this! It is far too common that we create new constructs and measures and far too uncommon that we take a good hard look at them and show that they're measuring the same thing!

Sort of sub-field pruning. Good stuff! 🧪

20.02.2026 13:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Why did the man who insists on being shirtless in jeans do a photo shoot of him working out in a sauna without even a hint of sweat on him? The logical thing would have been to be all oiled up and glistening to look all sweaty, right?

19.02.2026 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This movie is aging out of being a goofball parody and into being a bit too close to realistic to work.

18.02.2026 06:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0